“It’s been very rare to have known you, very strange and wonderful.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
amargedom“There’s some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.”
—
We met at the wrong time. That’s what I keep telling myself anyway. Maybe one day years from now, we’ll meet in a coffee shop in a far away city somewhere and we could give it another shot.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
phantomsmistress“My beating heart is still yours, the letter said, and I’ll be waiting for you.”
— Dana Schwartz, from Anatomy (via the-final-sentence)
alternamarian“Love consumes us only in the measure of our self-surrender.”
— St. Thérèse of Lisieux (via scribe4haxan)
“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd; the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are”
“Do you know what my happy thought was? It was you.”
— Robin Williams
“Tell me about the things you love, and the things you hate. Tell me what keeps you going, and what makes you falter. Tell me about the things that boil your blood, and the ocean you cry when no one is looking. Tell me anything. Tell me nothing. I will listen. Even when you have nothing but silence to offer. I will still listen.”
Lukas W. // I will listen
“Give me a few days of peace in your arms—I need it terribly. I’m ragged, worn, exhausted. After that I can face the world.”
— Henry Miller, from a letter to Anaïs Nin, featured in A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953
“Since childhood I’ve been faithful to monsters. I’ve been saved and absolved by them because monsters are the patron saints of our blissful imperfections.”
— Guillermo del Toro in his Golden Globe acceptance speech.
“Because my love for you is higher than words, I have decided to fall silent.”
-Nizar Qabbani
“Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that smooth the road to a good man’s fortune; and many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.”
— St. Basil the Great
“Slept, awoke, slept, awoke. Miserable life.”
—Franz Kafka
Sometimes we can't explain what we see in a person. It's just the way the person makes you feel and no one else can.
“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
— Unknown
“Let’s dance like ghosts. Let’s haunt ourselves tonight!”
— Cocaine and Abel: The Airborne Toxic Event
“Her soul! Her name! Her eyes! They seem to me like strange beautiful blue wild-flowers growing in some tangled, rain-drenched hedge. And I have felt her soul tremble beside mine, and have spoken her name softly to the night, and have wept to see the beauty of the world passing like a dream behind her eyes.”
James Joyce, from a love letter to (of) Nora Barnacle, Selected Joyce Letters, ed. Richard Ellmann (Viking Press, 1975)
“I didn’t fall in love, I walked right into it with steady steps and eyes open to their limit. I’m standing in love, not fallen in it. I want you with my full awareness. لم أقع في الحب لقد مشيت اليه بخطى ثابتة مفتوحة العينين حتى أقصى مداهما. اني واقفة في الحب لا واقعة في الحب. أريدك بكامل وعيي”
— Ghada al-Samman
“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would still go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“The modern world is desacralized, that is why it is in crisis. The modern person must rediscover a deeper source of his own spiritual life.”
—
C. G. Jung,
interview with Mircea Eliade (1952)